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Jakob Nielsen

Jan 1211 min read

The 3 Ages of Authorship and Creation

Oral tradition, writing and printing, and newly developing human-AI co-created media differ along multiple dimensions.

UX Roundup: Titan of Human Factors | Long UX Career | AI Articulation Barrier | Design Challenge | Leonardo Text | UX Podcast

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 86 min read

Jakob Nielsen named “Titan of Human Factors” | Retrospective on a long UX career | The articulation barrier to using AI is similar to DOS

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 412 min read

Curating AI-Generated Images

In an AI-saturated future, true design skill lies not in creation but in the art of choice. Case study: human judgment of 4 AI-generated pix

UX Roundup: Top UX Articles of 2023 | AI Sings | AI as Provocateur | Integrate AI in Apps | Package Delivery UX | Reporting UX Research | Midjourney Can Spell | UX-AI Job: Ideogram

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 26, 202310 min read

Jakob’s top-10 articles and top-3 videos in 2023 | AI sings about the 10 usability heuristics | The future of work: changing AI metaphor

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 20, 20237 min read

Rebirth of the UX Unicorn?

Summary: UX professionals who are good at all steps of the UX lifecycle, including both research and design, are called “UX unicorns”...

UX Roundup: Size Matters | AI-UX Job Opening | Midjourney App | Urgency for UX in AI | Eye Contact

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 18, 202310 min read

UX Roundup: Size Matters | AI-UX Job Opening | Midjourney App | Urgency for UX in AI | Eye Contact

Summary: Visualize the size of objects on ecommerce product pages | Job Openings: UX Research Generative AI @ Microsoft | Midjourney’s...

Generating Persistent Characters: Still Too Difficult

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 15, 20234 min read

Generating Persistent Characters: Still Too Difficult

Generative AI for images does not draw the same characters with the same appearance in different illustrations, as needed for personas.

Artificial Empathy: Is It Still Empathy?

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 13, 202316 min read

Artificial Empathy: Is It Still Empathy?

Is AI an unfeeling machine, or can it exhibit empathy? Do users feel empathy when interacting with AI? A debate.

UX Roundup: 100K LinkedIn Followers | Jakob & ADPList | AI UI Beyond Chat | UX Writing & AI

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 11, 20238 min read

UX Roundup: 100K LinkedIn Followers | Jakob & ADPList | AI UI Beyond Chat | UX Writing & AI

How Jakob gained 100,000 followers on LinkedIn | AI model answers UX questions | Write like a machine, think like a human.

Big Productivity Gains in Office Use of AI

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 8, 20238 min read

Big Productivity Gains in Office Use of AI

Microsoft Copilot increases the productivity of office tasks by around 40%, with even higher gains seen for search tasks.

UX Roundup: Live Tomorrow | Irrelevant User Research | Good Taste or Numbers | UX Business Impact

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 4, 20236 min read

UX Roundup: Live Tomorrow | Irrelevant User Research | Good Taste or Numbers | UX Business Impact

Wasting user research on low-value questions | Frame UX work for higher business impact | AI impact on the design profession: good taste

UX Roundup: OpenAI Debacle | Productive AI in UX | Better Headlines | Faster Horses | Solo UXer

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 27, 20238 min read

UX Roundup: OpenAI Debacle | Productive AI in UX | Better Headlines | Faster Horses | Solo UXer

Summary: Implications of the near-disaster at OpenAI | Improving productivity of UX work by using AI | Writing good headlines for UX...

UX Roundup: Free UX Books | DoD Does Well | Design for Anthropomorphism | Overall Evaluation

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 20, 20234 min read

UX Roundup: Free UX Books | DoD Does Well | Design for Anthropomorphism | Overall Evaluation

11 books about UX for free download | US Department of Defense AI deployment plan | Design UX for the fact that users anthropomorphize AI

Website Survival Without SEO in the Age of AI

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 15, 20236 min read

Website Survival Without SEO in the Age of AI

Content creators face reduced search traffic due to AI's prowess in delivering tailored answers. Permission marketing is the way.

UX Roundup: OpenAI Announcements | GitHub AI Keynote | Jakob’s Razor for UX | Midjourney Beta

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 13, 20239 min read

UX Roundup: OpenAI Announcements | GitHub AI Keynote | Jakob’s Razor for UX | Midjourney Beta

UX hot take on OpenAI’s keynote announcements | Jakob’s Razor: don’t overcomplicate matters and start with a qualitative user test w 5 users

Compare AI to Average Humans, Not the Best Human

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 10, 20239 min read

Compare AI to Average Humans, Not the Best Human

For max benefit, decisions to deploy AI solutions must be based on comparing AI with the average human performance, not the very best human.

SEO Is Dead, Long Live AI-Summarized Answers

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 8, 20237 min read

SEO Is Dead, Long Live AI-Summarized Answers

Unlike search, AI synthesizes a single clear answer from all available info, tailored to the user’s specific query and circumstances.

UX Roundup: IDEO Cut in Half | Dall-E Characters | AI New UI Paradigm

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 6, 20236 min read

UX Roundup: IDEO Cut in Half | Dall-E Characters | AI New UI Paradigm

Design firm IDEO cut half of staff since 2020 (most layoffs in 2023) | In analytics, define Overall Evaluation Criterion aligning w business

2,500% ROI from Microsoft Office AI Copilot

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 3, 20234 min read

2,500% ROI from Microsoft Office AI Copilot

Summary: An advertising agency experienced huge gains relative to monthly costs from deploying the AI Copilot product from Microsoft....

AI Visualizing AI: Beyond the Robot Stereotype

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 1, 20238 min read

AI Visualizing AI: Beyond the Robot Stereotype

AI creativity tested by challenging 3 leading generative models to conceptualize “artificial intelligence” without resorting to robots.

Design Leaders Should Go “Founder Mode”

4 Metaphors for Working with AI: Intern, Coworker, Teacher, Coach

Dark Design Patterns Catalog

UX Angst of 2023-24

Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience

Ideation Is Free: AI Exhibits Strong Creativity, But AI-Human Co-Creation Is Better

The 10 Usability Heuristics Reimagined

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